CVE-2025-27801: Optimizely Episerver Content Management System CMS

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Episerver Content Management System (CMS) by Optimizely was affected by multiple Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. This allowed an authenticated attacker to execute malicious JavaScript code in the victim's browser. ContentReference properties, which could be used in the "Edit" section of the CMS, offered an upload functionality for documents. These documents could later be used as displayed content on the page. It was possible to upload SVG files that include malicious JavaScript code that would be executed if a user visited the direct URL of the preview image. Attackers needed at least the role "WebEditor" in order to exploit this issue. Affected products: Version 11.X: EPiServer.CMS.Core (<11.21.4) with EPiServer.CMS.UI (<11.37.5), Version 12.X: EPiServer.CMS.Core (<12.22.1) with EPiServer.CMS.UI (<11.37.3)

Affected products

• Optimizely Episerver Content Management System CMS: from 11, before 11.21.4 (fixed in 11.21.4); from 12, before 12.22.1 (fixed in 12.22.1)

Published 2025-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.